With studios turning more and more to the world of comics for their next big cash cow, it should come as no surprise that they are starting to turn a sharper away towards the non-superhero line of comics. There's only so many capes 'n cowls to go around, afterall. Producer Lloyd Levin, who's Watchmen was a huge hit only a few short months ago, has inked a deal to bring indie scribe Terry Moore's sci-fi comic Echo to the big screen.
Echo tells the story of a girl who's life is turned upside down when she is showered with liquid metal after a botched military experiment. The metal gives her superhuman powers, but the government soon comes calling wanting their experiment back.
Terry Moore has been a fixture on the comic book scene for many years. His long running romance comic, Strangers in Paradise, ran for 14 years and is considered one of the great serial works in the modern era of comics. Lloyd Levin has been behind some of the most successful comic book adaptations, producing the aforementioned Watchmen as well as both Hellboy films. He also produced my favorite movie of all-time, Boogie Nights. Ofcourse he also produced Mystery Men, but I won't hold that against him.
